*People magazine has posted part of an exclusive Father’s Day essay from President Barack Obama, which expresses how growing up without a dad made him want to be the best parent he could. An excerpt from the essay, available in its entirety this Friday on newsstands, is listed below: I grew up without a father […]
*Now that Oprah Winfrey has a wee bit more free time, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” is hoping to court Oprah Winfrey for a plum guest spot. The media mogul – who ended her long running talk show after 25 years last month – is the first choice for actor Nick Offerman to play his onscreen […]
*Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) admitted today that he has sent explicit photographs of himself to women online, and apologized for what he called a “hugely regrettable mistake.” At least one of the women who received photographs from him is Ginette Nicole Cordova (pictured below), a journalism student studying in Seattle. Though Weiner said he came […]
*Film Life, Inc., CEO, Jeff Friday, is pleased to announce Emmy Award-winning producer/director Keenen Ivory Wayans as honoree at the landmark 15th Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF). In recognition of his success in the film and television industry for nearly 25 years, Wayans will be honored with the Entertainment Icon Award at the festival’s […]
*Actor Will Smith believed he nailed down the lead role for Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” He might want to check in with Tarantino to see if he still has the gig, because actor Idris Elba seems to think the role is his. He even tweeted as much. .”Having one of the biggest meetings of my […]
With “Fast Five” heating up the box office, Vin Diesel is keeping it moving with confirmed plans to star and produce “The Machine,” an action comedy from MGM. Diesel will play “a human-like machine created in secrecy by the Pentagon as the world’s first true ultimate weapon. Twenty years after the project was buried and […]
Former boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard has said that he was sexually abused as a teenager by a “prominent” Olympic coach, according to a report in the New York Times on Tuesday. The newspaper said Leonard made the claim in his upcoming autobiography, “The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring.”
After some rumors that Lauryn Hill will reunite with her former band mates (The Fugees) in a performance at the Haitian presidential inauguration, it’s been deemed a false report. “This performance announcement was unfortunately false, as Ms. Hill is currently on tour in the U.S. and will be performing in Santa Barbara, California that evening. […]
After all the hub bub, so to speak, about his appearance at the White House last week, Common is trying something a little different and is getting behind the scenes a bit with a new indie film, “L.U.V.” as the producer. He’ll also be staring in the flick as well. In the film, Common, born […]
The Samuel L. Jackson film “The Samaritan” is racking up international sales going into Cannes, with Germany’s ARD Degeto and Canada’s Entertainment One among the pre-buyers, according to the Hollywood Reporter. As previously reported, Jackson plays a man who leaves prison after two decades only to find himself caught up in a life of crime […]
On Wednesday, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, in one of his last official acts before he leaves office next week, stopped by her studio to rename a street outside Harpo Studios where Winfrey tapes her show “Oprah Winfrey Way.” Winfrey is widely credited with helping transform a gritty part of the city into a thriving neighborhood, […]
Lakers center Andrew Bynum was suspended by The NBA has suspended Lakers center Andrew Bynum for the first five games next season and fined him $25,000 for his flagrant foul on Dallas guard J.J. Barea on Sunday. Tuesday Bynum apologized, saying it didn’t reflect his upbringing or the Lakers’ organization. The foul was widely criticized […]
